Article: Warning re Google/Pfizer new "Depression Tool" - Need the MA Law!

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How charitable of Pfizer and Google.  Will an 'Anxiety Tool' to prescribe benzos be next? ....

 

Google's depression tool could lead to dangerous over-treatment and addiction to antidepressants, expert warns

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-4881910/Google-s-depression-tool-cause-harm-good.html

 

"- Professor warns that the tool will lead to over-diagnosis, over-prescribing and misuse of data

- He says Google worked with antidepressant drug-maker Pfizer to make quiz that gives false positives

- Others say the tool is low-risk, and in line with national efforts to screen for depression"

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Yep, so now it turns out pharma was doing the Google questionnaire.  See related news posts from two weeks ago :

 

http://www.benzobuddies.org/forum/index.php?topic=187373.0